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Friday, November 23, 2007

Safari testing on windows:

By ShubhamNow before I begin I must confess that I am a die hard Firefox fan. I

some times wish that even my iPhone had firefox!!! It actually took alot of convincing in the first place for me to give safari a propertry. A friend of mine from the the firefox fan club had recentlyswiched to a mac and he was claiming safari to be a much betterexperience.After testing for a few days some of the features that immidiatelycaught my attention were:- blazing fast speed. I mean really really fast. Its draws up pagesfaster than any other thing out there.- autocompletes web addresses as we type.- font smoothening makes the web a treat for the eyes- very easy to setup and configure as fewer intelligent opions- spell and grammar check. A feature every modern browser should have.- a very slick interface. The rolling out and the zooming out windowsare a pleasure to have.

Now some of the things that I am generally used to and am them missinghere- my scrapbook on orkut is missing.(apparently its a bug in the orkutwebsite code)- download manger does not show the percentage downloaded in the titlebar like firefox. So there is no way to know if a download has startedafter clicking on a link. In firefox the window label generallyhighlights if something new is happening.- no integrated 3rd party download manager that can be installed likea plugin at least not for the windows version.- in the bookmarks page shifting folders around is a pain. Especiallyin the highest level folder tree. Also what's the folder calledbookmarks menu for? (update: I think I got it. It seems be the list ofbookmarks in the dropdown bookmarks menu)- lacks the feature to open files directly with their default programinstead of downloading it first. I use torrents a lot and earlierfirefox would automatically open the torrent file from my browserwindow in my favourote torrent client.- no suggestions in the search box unlike firefox which gives a dropdown list of suggestions.- also no default option to pick a search engine apart from google oryahoo. In firefox I have all kinds of search engines installed IMDB,Wikipedia and more.- also no option to force pages that are supposed to be opened in anew window to open in a new tab. Firefox has this option and you don'tend up openinig a new window accidently.

All in all safari is a excellent browser but it is a better choice ona mac than on a PC because on a mac you can customize it a whole lotbetter using apple scripts and the plugins available.

I hope you liked my review. Will be writing another one for the newfirefox 3Beta. Please leave a comment.